Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opened the season at Noroton, Connecticut, on June 22 with Jezebel' and 'Desdemona', two special Ford trucks 'Vivian', a Ford touring car, 'Nemo', a Dodge of questionable antecedents, and Mr. Cheney's Renault runabout, 'Pippett', as our means of transportation. We were kept busy attending to these cars throughout our 11 weeks' hour...
...Syracuse, one Paul Steinberg, no jaywalker, leaped adroitly, saved himself from destruction by clinging to the radiator of an automobile that would have run him down; went on his way, smiling with relief; started to cross another street, leaped again, landed on the running board of another assaulting car, his knuckles accidently crashing into the driver's jaw. "I'll have you arrested," shouted the driver. "Go ahead," grunted Mr. Steinberg, "I'm lucky I should be able to be arrested...
There were few freaks on exhibit: an amphibious Peugeot, a motor boat on wheels, ready to take to the water by a simple shifting of gear; the Bleriot wood-burning car (TIME, Oct. 11) generating gas from fagots; a Fiat with an oak-mahogany paneling, interior drive, 26-h.p.; an electric Parville, claimed to run 930 miles without a recharged battery...
...features of the salon was the new Erskine Six, labeled "the first European type of six-cylinder car built in America." The machine is named for Albert Erskine, president of the Studebaker Corp., speeds 60 miles an hour, nets 25 miles to the gallon. Mr. Erskine was not in Paris to see his car support the U. S. invasion of European markets. At his desk in the home of Studebaker at South Bend, Ind., he was thinking politics, writing a telegram...
Duesenberg. A Duesenberg motor car guaranteed for 15 years, capable of 120 m.p.h. if desired, equipped with body according to individual order-this car, to sell at $18,000 and to be the highest priced car in the world, was last week's announcement of President E. L. Cord of the Auburn Automobile Co. He has just purchased the Duesenberg Motors Co., which Fred S. Duesenberg, automotive genius, racer, created.* Inventor Duesenberg will be vice president of the new concern-Duesenberg, Inc., which will be entirely separate from the Automobile...